I had a defective original Roborock charging dock lying around, compatible with models including the S5, S6, S7, Q7 and S8. The dock appeared completely dead: there was 0 V at the charging contacts.
Since I had already bought a replacement dock, this was a good opportunity to open the old one and systematically find out what had failed.
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